Etienne later asks Marie-Laure, “Who was supposed to be the frog? Her? Or the Germans?” (page 328) Who did you think Madame Manec meant? Could it have been someone other than herself or the Germans? What does it say about Etienne that he doesn’t consider himself to be the frog?ħ. Reread Madame Manec’s boiling frog analogy on page 284. That a light you are powerless to stop will turn on you and usher a bullet to its mark.” How does this image constitute the most general basis of all fear? Do you agree?Ħ. On page 160, Marie-Laure realizes “This.is the basis of his fear, all fear. How do you think this phrase relates to the overall message of the story? How does it relate to Madame Manec’s question: “Don’t you want to be alive before you die?” (page 270)?ĥ. When Werner and Jutta first hear the Frenchman on the radio, he concludes his broadcast by saying “ Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever” (pages 48–49), and Werner recalls these words throughout the book (pages 86, 264, and 409). Whose story did you enjoy the most? Was there any character you wanted more insight into?Ĥ. How did this affect your reading experience? How do you think the experience would have been different if the story had been told entirely in chronological order?ģ. The narration moves back and forth both in time and between different characters.
How do you think the impact of the radio back then compares with the impact of the Internet on today’s society?Ģ. How do these quotes set the scene for the rest of the book? Discuss how the radio plays a major part in the story and the time period.
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